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Eight separate pieces, 1 1/2" x 6" in Pigma Micron and Staedtler Karat Aquarell on paper.Here they are, all of them colored! Just had to post the batch together, now that all eight are finished. Enjoy!
And if you want to use it for bookmarks, it's now available as a print 9" x 12" -- just order your print in choice of surfaces, then cut it apart and laminate them separately or just use them. Eight different designs in one print, unless you enjoy hanging it on the wall to see the variations together. This is some of why I put this one up as a print, so that people could get good quality color reproduction bookmarks using it.
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That's a cool story -- and yeah, maybe you can refurbish Patch and get him new eyes. Most bead shops and craft stores have stuffed animal eyes, you can probably get nice amber-brown ones rather than just redoing it with buttons.
One way you could refurbish him is to very carefully copy out the shape of every piece of him and cut them in new cloth or fake fur, though what I'm thinking would be nice and also sturdy would be velveteen -- and then stitch the new suit together and put it on over the old -- leave the original fabric inside and then recover him and restuff a little and add the eyes on. Especially if you can come close to the same shade of brown. He'd get a new lease on life and go to another whole generation.
I don't have it any more but when I was a little kid I didn't like stuffed animals much, really wanted a black panther. My dad got a book from the library and sewed up a little six inch tall black velvet panther that lost its tail, then he put a white fur tail on it that didn't match but was cute. It had two tiny white buttons for eyes but a very realistic cat shape. Too bad I don't have it any more or I'd pass it on to my grandkids.
Maybe sometime I'll get some black velvet and make one and pass it on by way of the tradition.
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yeah. im worried that i might end up using the whole card on one site, but then again..i dont care! hah! thanks for those links!
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If you use the whole card at Dick Blick you may get some amazing bargains and wind up with more stuff that way -- and pay less shipping than if you split it up between different sites. They have a lot of good stuff super cheap.
If you need pencils, General's Kimberley regular pencils are cheaper than anything else.
If you need colored pencils the super bargain set is Koh-I-Noor Woodless Colored Pencils -- these are soft Artist Grade pencils, the 24 color set is $8.28 and comes in an extremely good package. They last a lot longer than other colored pencils because woodless pencils do -- they're all pigment. The colors are rich, vivid, opaque and blend well. I picked it up for a lark wondering if I'd like woodless colored pencils and I do -- they handle well, they don't wear down as fast and are easy to sharpen in any normal pencil sharpener.
Prismacolors really need the Prismacolor Colored Pencil Sharpener, it doesn't eat the leads as much as normal ones do. You'll save its cost just in how much longer your pencils last and how many fewer replacement pencils you need. I hate getting a new Prismacolor and chewing up a third of it in the point breaking on sharpening it before I even use the dang thing. The Koh-I-Noor Pencil Lengthener is another pencil saver letting you use them down to the little bitty stubs. I have an Imperial Violet in one of mine that only has a quarter inch of barrel left, just a point really -- and it's still usable and I'm still using it up.
Last, if you don't have the Prismacolor Colorless Blender , it too is great for saving Prismacolors and also for a lot of special effects you can't get without it. If you have one you already know how much it helps in getting that burnished, textureless look. But I tested it and if I go lightly with a dark pencil and then burnish with the clear blending pencil, I can get light tints of dark hues and extend the actual range of my Prismacolor set with stuff like 20% Indigo instead of just the darkest Indigo.
That's if you have and use Prismacolors. If you don't have and use Prismacolors the blender may work pretty well with the Progressos and they are definitely cheap. The Progressos actually respond better to regular pencil sharpeners than to the Prismacolor Colored Pencil Sharpener. I've been finding out which of my colored pencils like that best or prefer the Alvin Brass Bullet Pencil Sharpener. I bought that on a lark. It was pure extravagance, a normal sharpener that cost as much as the Prismacolor one but it's very heavy and maybe it's just the brand-new blade but it seems to glide through pencils very easily and get really superfine sharp points on the high number H pencils that can hold a pinpoint point.
It might be the engineering on these fancy pencil sharpeners. On the Prismacolor one I think it has to do with the design of the case because the pencil straightens out in it fast and is held straighter than in normal sharpeners, immediately -- so they did the shape of it to be perfect for soft leads in normal wood. The Alvin Brass Bullet may be at a slightly more precise angle than the cheap sharpeners I got in grocery stores and drugstores, aimed more at draftsmen that often use 6H pencils sharpened to a superfine point than at kids writing with the pencils. I like it, you may not want to spend that much on a regular pencil sharpener. But the Prismacolor one is good for most of the artist grade colored pencils.
Except the supercheap Progressos, which simply rock.
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ha ha. actually i will be looking into getting a good set of sharpeners, so its good to hear about these. i dont really mind paying more for something if it works so much better. my art teacher has some silver sharpeners. i dont know where they are from or how much they cost, but they work a million times better thank any of those chinky old plastic ones.
i have used the prismacolor blender before, on my Frog picture, as my first and only picture done in prismacolor. i will be looking into getting a good set of those too.
wow. i am so glad for all of these tips though, it will help me get my money's worth. so thank you much!
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Oh yes! I can heartily recommend the Prismacolor Colored Pencil Sharpener and for anything like regular graphite pencils, the Alvin Brass Bullet, and for pastel and charcoal pencils, the General's All-Art little red sharpener. I wound up getting half a dozen different sharpeners on one order because I got tired of not finding them when I wanted them and my Prismacolor sharpener was getting dull after a year of use.
I do think the Alvin Brass Bullet probably has a tighter angle for getting a good point on hard pencils. I've started sketching more often with 2H or harder graphite pencils when I'm doing undersketches and preliminary sketches for watercolor or colored pencil and the Alvin Brass bullet gets those to this microfine point the way a rotary sharpener does for a lead holder's thick leads. The harder the pencil, the sharper it gets in the Brass Bullet. I've used about an inch of the 9H pencil because I love how it gets when it's sharpened.
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well that is very good. even better than this? thats great!
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My scanner brightens everything I scan and washes out the lightest colors, makes everything one shade lighter than it is. On the brilliant deep royal blues this actually looks good, they look all rich and bright. But the very lightest yellows don't always show up -- on the red and yellow one it looks patchy but the real bookmark it doesn't look patchy at all. Also, the tape burnishes it down and makes it look brighter the same way adding water does on aquarell colored pencils -- I would have used Prismacolors if I wasn't laminating because the aquarell pencils can sometimes smear because your fingers sweat.
I had that problem on a couple of them but managed to do very good erasing around it with my kneaded eraser screwed to a very tiny point, so I cleaned it up. Yes. It is possible to erase smudges of Staedtler Karat Aquarell colored pencils if they aren't too dark and you use a kneaded eraser!
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woot! thats good to know. sometimes things erase, and sometimes they dont. it depends on how they feel at the time..and sometimes what eraser you use...other usefull things like that...
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Yep. It's taken years but I'm starting to get a feel for what erasers help with what types of pencils. Kneaded erasers are good for at least reducing marks. On colored pencil you can "lift" or lighten dark areas by squishing and peeling it off, but it also works like a regular eraser for rubbing.
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yeah. i really love kneaded erasers, they are nifty little things
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Ooh yeah. Kneaded erasers rock. I think they were invented to give serious artists something silly to fiddle with while thinking of ideas. They're very good for erasing, for lifting, for fiddling with and for sculpting immediate small models if you need a sphere or a snowman shape or a cat head or anything and don't want to do it permanent.
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yeah. i was going to say that all next, they are so fun to fiddle with and sculpt into mini sculptures!
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Yep! I used to fiddle with them a lot in class when I was in college, just keep stretching it and squashing it and sculpting it and squishing and resculpting...
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yeah. in my old art class we had some at our tables, i would stretch it and roll it flat with a pencil, then roll it up into a rose, then squash it and stretch it again!
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Yep! That was so much fun. I used to stretch it and build up these things that looked like landscapes on album covers. Sometimes I squish it into a cube or a block, sometimes roll it into a sphere, currently it's about a quarter inch thick oval that's been mashed on my desk surface till it's smooth and flat on both sides. I still love playing with kneaded erasers.
I stocked up and got half a dozen of them back when I ordered goodies so I won't be running out anytime soon! But for some reason I hang on to old dirty ones -- maybe because like dirty tortillons they can be used to sketch very light tones of graphite. If it won't clean to the point where I can erase with it and get things clean, it becomes something to press in light tones with.
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They look fantastic! I think my favourite is the horizontal green one second from the bottom, as well as the very bottom blue one. ~E.
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Cool! I like those too!
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Oh, wow! They're so elaborate and festive! My favorite is the bright green one second from the bottom. I like both its pattern and its color.
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Thanks! I had a lot of fun with these and decided to scan the whole group together. I love how bright the green one looks in person too, it's intense! You know these colors, you've used your Staedtlers.
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